Microsoft’s shareholders on Wednesday approved CEO Satya Nadella’s multimillion-dollar pay package but by a margin much smaller than similar votes in the past. Last month, Institutional Shareholder Services, the institutional investment adviser, urged its clients to vote against Nadella’s compensation, calling a February stock grant given to him a “mega …
CNN used it for polling during the recent gubernatorial debates in Florida and on the “Magic Wall” on election night; Fox News uses it to follow the mood of the U.S. during the president’s State of the Union addresses. Now Microsoft is launching its Bing Pulse real-time polling service as …
Amazon Web Services is providing more payment options for its cloud-based virtual machines, allowing users to lock in a price and pay either entirely upfront, or throughout the life of a one- or three-year contract. AWS has a variety of ways customers can pay for using its cloud-based virtual machines. …
Remembering Editor’s Note: If you are unable to advance to the next slide, try disabling adblock. We apologize for the inconvenience. 2014 has been a particularly tough year for those of us at IDG who mourn the loss of Patrick McGovern, founder and chairman of the company, this past March. …
Ashton Carter, now widely considered to be the next secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), shares something with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein. All four have a doctorate in physics. Although Carter has not pursued physics as a career, he has emerged in his …
Docker fever continues to spread across the enterprise IT landscape. Following similar moves by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google, IBM is equipping its enterprise cloud services to run the Docker virtualization containers. Delivered as part of its Bluemix platform services, the IBM Containers service is currently in beta and …
An unidentified North Korean official has denied that his country was behind the hack of Sony Pictures, an online report claimed. According to Voice of America (VOA) — the U.S. government’s official foreign broadcaster — a New York City-based North Korean diplomat refuted charges that its hackers, or those it …
In November, President Obama outlined a sweeping executive order that would overhaul the immigration system with provisions that would provide work permits for up to five million undocumented workers and provide for more software engineers and entrepreneurs to work in the U.S. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley has been pushing for immigration …
GUI firewall tools in Linux The command line is a powerful tool for any Linux user, but there are times when a GUI can also be quite useful, particularly when it comes to managing firewalls. There are a number of GUI-based firewall tools available, but some Linux users might be …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a penny stock promoter in Montana with orchestrating a fraudulent pump-and-dump scheme involving the stock of a Northern Virginia-based company that claims to be in the airport security business. The SEC alleges that Matthew Carley, who lives in Bozeman, Mont., engineered a reverse …
Today wasn’t the day for NASA’s next-generation spacecraft Orion to lift off on its first test flight. A variety of issues, including a boat that strayed into a dangerous area, wind gusts and a valve problem, repeatedly put different launch times on hold this morning until NASA finally scrubbed today’s …
Google will try to boost the enthusiasm, commitment and sales of its enterprise partners with a revamped, consolidated program that offers more incentives and rewards. Google’s seven enterprise partner programs, organized around products and geographies, will be fused into one designed to simplify and intensify the company’s relationship with resellers, …
A Nook deal Microsoft and Barnes & Noble struck with much fanfare less than three years ago has deflated, after failing to achieve its lofty goals in the e-reader market. After plunking down $300 million for an almost 18 percent stake in Nook Media in April 2012, at a stratospheric …
With as much time as I spend in my inbox, Gmail is like a virtual home. So when Google announced Inbox, a reimagined Gmail interface aimed at making email easier to manage, I was immediately intrigued. My first impressions of Inbox were mixed, to put it mildly. But with anything …
The European Union has ironed out privacy concerns in a proposed law that would make it mandatory for vehicles to have systems that automatically call emergency services in case of a crash. Called “eCall”, the system would enable an audio channel between vehicles and emergency services via a public mobile …
Docker fever continues to spread across the enterprise IT landscape. Following similar moves by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google, IBM is equipping its enterprise cloud services to run the Docker virtualization containers. Delivered as part of its Bluemix platform services, the IBM Containers service is currently in beta and …
Even though the Zambian government has approved a plan to pay back a $103 million loan for Libyan operator Lap Green Networks, the legal battle over the company’s exit from the country is far from over. Zambia says it intends to pay back the loan, which Lap Green obtained from …
I keep coming across innovative solutions I want to write more about, so here’s the latest collection. Connected homes Piper ($199) is a clever system combining home automation with home security and iOS integration. The small bookshelf speaker sized unit hosts a 180-degree live video camera and will monitor activity …
The destructive malware program that the FBI alerted some companies about this week was likely used against Sony Pictures Entertainment, according to technical evidence found by researchers in the program’s code. Reports surfaced online Nov. 24 that the computer network of Sony Pictures Entertainment, a U.S.-based subsidiary of Sony, was …
Пока большая часть обладателей мобильных устройств своими глазами не видела новой платформы Android 5.0 Lollipop, в Google была проведена работа над исправлением некоторых ее ошибок. Результатом этой работы стал релиз Android 5.0.1. Google не показала список изменений и нововведений данного обновления (версия LRX22C), но никаких значимых функциональных новшеств ждать не приходится. В …
The dual-screen YotaPhone 2 is a much-improved version of its predecessor, and the electronic paper display is far from a gimmick. But the high price tag makes actually buying one a little nutty. Let’s get something out of the way first before we get back to the price: I can’t …
The destructive malware program that the FBI alerted some companies about this week was likely used against Sony Pictures Entertainment, according to technical evidence found by researchers in the program’s code. Reports surfaced online Nov. 24 that the computer network of Sony Pictures Entertainment, a U.S.-based subsidiary of Sony, was …
Some people object to any and all forms of regulation. Back in February 1996, Grateful Deadlyricist and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation John Perry Barlow published “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace,” in which he advocated self-regulating the Internet via individualized adherence to the golden rule of reciprocity …
Opera Software yesterday updated its namesake desktop browser to version 26, introducing bookmarks sharing and beating rival Google to the punch. The bookmarks folder sharing feature introduced in Opera 26 on Wednesday followed a design revamp of the browser’s bookmarks manager seven weeks ago. Then, Opera unveiled a manager that …
Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a compact RFID tag that works on surfaces such as metal, which can otherwise impede radio waves. The tag, 30mm long, 25mm wide and 0.5mm thick, can be attached to any material, including plastic cards, wearables and metal objects. Despite its small size, it has a …
North Korea is most likely not responsible for the cyberattacks against Sony Pictures Entertainment, where thousands of sensitive internal documents were released on the Web in a high-profile strike, experts said. The secretive nation was fingered in part because the same malware was used against Sony that crippled South Korea …